smug - Story 136306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lunchtime crowd was particularly annoying today, but Lisa didn't mind. She found a table near the window, giving her a perfect view of the courtyard. She watched her junior colleague, Ben, run back and forth from the building. She smiled. She knew where Ben was going.

Later, she lingered in her office, organizing her desk, something she usually hated. The process took a long time, and she paid great attention to every small detail. She whistled a jaunty tune.

Emotion: smug

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.43 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 1.71

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion smug. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 smug stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the smug emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the smug vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	1.109
`l`	0.615
`la`	0.585
`😎`	0.570
`😉`	0.564

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.579
`own`	-0.486
`💔`	-0.483
`😞`	-0.464
`😣`	-0.455